Wonderful Tele for the budget conscious

I have the Sigma 70 - 300mm brought nine months ago in order to also cover the telephoto range can. The budget was small, everything was crucial for me at that time the price. Over the imaging quality of moderate Kit -Objektivs I did not expect from the very reasonable SIGMA lens - I would have been happy to be able to cover the missing 70mm-300mm focal length.

I got much more than expected. The image quality is much higher than the kit lens, in particular the focus is clearly better. If you have the lens for the first time in his hand, it provides tactile and visually high quality, overwhelm the first photos when nothing else is used as the kit lens. I regret the purchase at any time.

For sports photography through to the portrait I had this Sigma already in use.

High added value is the way the macro functionality. This is actually useful. After a little practice to succeed amazing macro shots, especially if you take the time to manually focus.

The pros and cons:

PRO:
-Unschlagbares Price / performance ratio
-for this price segment outstanding image quality
-Macrofunktionalität
-Angenehme Haptics
-Autofokus Quite fail

CONTRA:
- Autofocus is a little noisy and slow
- After almost a year in continuous operation now are starting to trouble me. The rings are now running somewhat stubborn. Autofocus makes consequently problems.
- The focus takes between 200mm -300mm significantly.

CONCLUSION:

You can go wrong at this price really nothing. Top offer for all those who need to save and still want to make great photos.

5 Stars